Hopefully you get the point, sometimes you need different tools for
different jobs, if you want a full development platform with SVN support
I suggest you take a look at eclipse (with
subclipse ) but what if you already
have done the development and you just want to do a quick upload.

My phpbb_recent_topics
plugin
is hosted here, and when the nice guys at wordpress gave me an svn
account, I just wanted a quick way to upload what I've done. Now I must
stress this may not be the "proper" way to use svn (there's a
book for that) but it is enough to
achieve what we want, a straight forward upload.

I'm using redhat, so the 1st step was to install dag's subversion
rpm , I also needed to
setup an "editor" variable for commenting.

SVN_EDITOR=vi
export SVN_EDITOR

Then, I went into a directory onto my server, and downloaded a copy of
the existing subversion directory structure.

Remember this doesn't publish your plugin on
wordpress.org, to do that you
need a valid
readme.txt in the
trunk directory, but as you can see once you've created all the files on
your local box, it's just a few commands to get your work uploaded.